In later generations, like other heroes in history, there will always be people who will judge and help Cao Cao, so that he can rise in the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty, and create the first hero of Cao Wei.

Some people say it's Guo Jia, some say it's Xun Yu, some say it's Jia Xu, and some say it's those clan generals of the Cao family...... Of course, for Fu Quan, these people should not be Cao Wei's first hero, in his opinion, Cao Wei's first hero is the one who followed Cao Cao from the beginning, was loyal by nature, even if Yuan Shao solicited several times, he was unmoved, and even proposed Tuntian to Cao Cao, solving his most important food problem.

Can't be wrong, that person is in front of Fuquan, this jujube who has not thoroughly studied the military attributes of the Yellow Turban Moth thief, the integration of soldiers and farmers who also fight and cultivate.

If there were no dates, Cao Cao would probably have no soldiers and no food, and he might not even be able to survive the Battle of Guandu, and it may be very likely that he would have been defeated and killed before breaking with Yuan Shao. Because, it was Zaoyi, in the third year of the early peace of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou, and after leading Yanzhou, he was appointed as Dong'a Ling, guarding Dong'a, and thus began to accumulate a lot of food for Cao Cao.

At that time, during his stay in Dong'e, Zao Yi devoted himself to persuading farmers to teach mulberry, accumulating grain and storing grain, and diligently repairing military equipment, organizing and training Dong'a soldiers and civilians, and reinforcing and repairing the city fortifications of Dong'e City. At this time, he began to figure out and experiment with the prototype of some tuntian, and in terms of grain, there was also a great harvest effect, and later Cao Cao was almost wiped out by Lu Bu in his hometown, and since then he has withdrawn from the historical stage of the battle of Yanzhou, if there is no date, Cao Cao will be difficult to win the final victory.

At that time, Lü Bu and Chen Gong took the opportunity of Cao Cao's troops to Xuzhou, and suddenly attacked Yanzhou, and the counties and counties under Yanzhou rebelled one after another, leaving only Dong'e, Juancheng, and Fanxian still loyal to Cao Cao. Later, after Lu Bu and Chen Gong occupied most of Yanzhou, they sent troops to storm Dong'e City, but because the city wall of Dong'e City was very strong, Zao You led the army and people to resist stubbornly, so Dong'e City was never captured. After that, Dong'e also became a reliable rear and military base for Cao Cao's counterattack on Lü Bu and recapture Yanzhou, although Cao Cao's boss at the time, Yuan Shao, sent troops to rescue, but if there was no food supply for the city of Dong'e in Zaoyi, I am afraid that even if Cao Cao had reinforcements, there would be no military food to supply.

Therefore, being able to save Cao Cao from a desperate situation several times, and the wealth of Dong'e naturally aroused the covetousness of many people, such as Yuan Shao, who privately recruited Zaoyi several times and wanted to entrust high-ranking officials with important tasks, the reason is naturally that he hopes that he can help Yuan Shao to quickly resume production in the north and build a logistics base in the north.

Therefore, Zaoyi's greatest contribution is that he prepared unimaginable military food for the Cao Wei group, in Yanzhou, the land of the four wars. And these grains originated from the tuntian system that he first initiated, which solved the long-standing food problem for Cao Cao's army.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, there was the Taiping Dao rebellion, the Yellow Turban Moth thieves for the world, and then there were successive princes fighting for hegemony, at that time it can only be said that "the land is impermanent, the people are impermanent" situation, not only hundreds of people live in hunger, even all kinds of warlords, in fact, there is a shortage of food.

Many warlords, because of a serious shortage of food, lost in the war, even Cao Cao, in his first few years of campaigns, often because of the lack of food, forced to withdraw troops halfway, giving up the upcoming military victory. And Zaoyi, when Cao Cao suppressed the remnants of the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves of Taiping Road who were rebellious, he learned a lot about the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves' evolving practice of integrating soldiers and peasants who also fought and cultivated, and was inspired by it, and finally thoroughly studied a set of plans for Tuntian.

It was not until the first year of Jian'an that Cao Cao defeated the Yellow Turban Moth thieves in Runan, Yingchuan, and obtained a large number of farming cattle, farm tools and labor. Zao only suggested that Cao Cao use these agricultural tools to reclaim land in the Xuchang area and implement tuntian, so as to solve Cao Cao's most urgent food problem. Eventually, Cao Cao accepted his suggestion and appointed him the Governor of Tuntian, with full responsibility for Tuntian.

Zao Yi began to experiment with tuntian in Xuchang, he first took all the barren ownerless farmland into Cao Cao's ownership, and organized a large number of displaced people recruited into groups according to the establishment of the army, and the state provided land, seeds, ploughing cattle and farm tools, and they cultivated and cultivated, and the harvest obtained was divided proportionally between the state and the farmers in tuntian.

And the results of the final research of the Tuntian plan are also very gratifying, because in the first year of the implementation of the plan, Cao Cao "got a million grains".

That's right, it's "get a million grains", you must know that Wan Hu grain can be enough for thousands of people to eat for half a year, and million Hu grains, that is, 100,000 troops, half a year of fighting, now, Xuchang County, can supply 100,000 troops for half a year of military rations, this effect, how not shocking? Think about it, not to mention that other counties are not as good as Xuchang, but as long as other counties can harvest half of Xuchang's grain, can Cao Cao be afraid that there will be no more food after that?

So after that, Cao Cao ordered that the county and the state should be placed as a field official and recruit exiled people to tuntian. Later, at Zaoyi's suggestion, he accepted his proposal and ordered the army to tuntian, and the tuntian system was widely implemented.

It was also the implementation of the tuntian system initiated by Zaoyi, so that the agricultural production in the north that had been damaged by the war for a long time was restored and stabilized in a short period of time, the landless people were rationally used for farming, and many farmland that was barren because of the war was also reclaimed, and Cao Wei also accumulated a large amount of grain.

It can be said that the implementation of the tuntian system not only solved the headache of military rations for Cao Cao, but also won him a large number of people, thereby speeding up the process of Cao Cao's unification of the north, and thus greatly ensuring his success in three parts of the world.

In other words, without food, even if Cao Cao had thousands of troops and horses, even if he gathered all the famous ministers and good generals of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, it would be useless. "The people take food as the sky", this is the eternal truth, no one will be hungry for you, this is also the battlefield on the battlefield, countless generals will ensure that their food is smooth.

Cai Dongfan, a writer of the Republic of China, said: "Jun and only tried his best to persuade farming, only a few years later, he had to accumulate millions of grains, and ordered the prefectures and counties to buy field officials, and the place was rich." Therefore, Cao has to use troops in all directions, do not work to transport, and the pawn can defeat the attack and annex the heroes; Cao's heroes, only Jun should be in the first rank! Compared with two Xun and one Guo, they do not give in. "In this, you can see that the work of jujube is very great!

Even Chen Pu, a famous Confucian in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem for this: "It has been ten years without smoke for thousands of miles, and once Xu Luocui seedlings were in the field." Qiankun Qu is willing to tolerate Cao Cao, and talk about solving the hanging for the common people. ”

The merit of jujube is general, and it should be Cao Wei's first merit in the world. If he hadn't been in the rear, using the tuntian to accumulate grain and grass, I'm afraid Cao Cao would have run out of rice for cooking, if he was like Cheng Yu, relying on slaughtering the city, killing people and making people into dried meat, and turning them into human breasts as military food, I am afraid that even if Cao Wei won the world, there would be no more people in the world to supply Cao Wei to rule.

This is also the main reason why later, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and years of warlord scuffle, most of northern China changed from the original scene of "white bones exposed in the wilderness, no rooster crowing for thousands of miles", and "nothing to see when going out, white bones covering the plains" to "storage is full". Zao's merit not only solved the problem of Cao Wei's military rations, laid a solid foundation for Cao Cao's expedition to the Quartet and pacified the world, but also enabled a large number of displaced landless people to return to their homes and live and work in peace and contentment.

After that, Fuquan invited the two to sit down, and they had another staggered discussion, but the two were obviously restrained and didn't talk much. With this expression, Fu Quan immediately understood that it would not be possible to win over the two of them today.

Of course, he doesn't care much about Fanqin, after all, it will not be a peaceful and prosperous era in the future, no matter how good the poetry and songs are, he doesn't need it, what really makes him care about is the jujube, after all, if there is this loyal agricultural everyone who is obedient, at least he will not worry about logistics in the future.

Fighting a war is nothing more than fighting for troops, money, food and talents, and relatively speaking, if the first two have an absolute advantage, the latter will not be so important. After all, as long as the person with an obvious advantage in strength, there will be no infighting, even if he loses many defeats, but pure hard consumption, that is, consumption, can also consume the other party to death.

At the end of the banquet, Fuquan and his party greeted Zao Yi and Fanqin, and then left, without saying much.

Looking at Fuquan and the others who were far away, Fanqin's face was solemn, and he said to Zao Yi beside him: "Brother Zao, looking at this situation, could it be that Xi Zhi wants to cast into Liuchuanhu?" ”

"That's how it should be!" Zao Yi said in a somewhat cold tone: "The drama is good and peaceful, but I didn't want to vote for this person, it's a pity!" Why is this so? How so? As he spoke, Zao Yi shook his head again and again, as if he was really sorry for the wrong person for Xi Zhicai, but in fact, in his heart, he was sorry that he couldn't let this arrogant person join their clan.

"Exactly! Yes, extremely! It's a pity for this person! Fanqin nodded in response, but he naturally knew what the jujube meant, but he didn't break it.

As a scholar from a clan, Fanqin naturally wants to become a leader in the future, and can be supplemented by such talented scholars, which is obviously very beneficial to himself. Moreover, if a person with great talent like Xi Zhicai takes refuge in him, he will definitely not stop at a low position, and it is normal to climb to the position of a high-ranking official.

On the one hand, it monopolized the way to select officials, making it difficult for the Hanmen scholars to be officials, and on the other hand, they continued to persecute the Hanmen scholars to become officials with the help of the resources of the family. From the very beginning, they have confirmed the connection between those potential stocks and the family, so that those who have received their help cannot part with them, and finally make the family more connected and powerful.

escorted Xi Zhicai, who had a lot of money, home, all the way, and on the way, Fu Quan wanted to play Zhicai and Xu Fu to explore Zaoyi and Fanqin. Xu Fu didn't know much about the two of them, only the drama Zhi who was also in Yangzhai County was more familiar, although he didn't want to mention the two more, but after all, he had already entered the command of Fuquan, so it was naturally difficult to refuse, so he could only say it one by one.

Therefore, after Fu Quan, he also knew the general background and family background of the two, the Zao family and the Fan family, which are considered medium families in Yangzhai County, but their power is not small.

However, the Zao family is not surnamed Zao, but should be surnamed Thorn, but its ancestors came to Yingchuan in order to take refuge, and later changed their surname to Zao, which is very common among the countless people who fled for their lives in the Han Dynasty. Zao Yi and Fanqin are young talents who are quite famous and valued among the two families, but because of their marriage with the famous party family in Yingchuan County, the two families have also been affected by many party turmoil, resulting in the two have not yet become famous.

In his words, Fu Quan could see that Xi Zhicai should be quite familiar with the two days, but his words were a little cold, probably, maybe because of some unknown reasons, Xi Zhicai had a very poor relationship with them.

On the way, in addition to inquiring about Zaoyi and Fanqin's family history, because he was still thinking about other talents who knew Yang Zhai, Fuquan naturally followed suit, such as Guo Jiaqi, whom he wanted to meet.

It's just that although Xi Zhi only knows the young Guo Jia, according to Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, who was born in the side branch of Yangzhai Guo's family, although he is famous, has been relatively low-key since he was a child, unless he goes to Guo's family to find someone to inquire, it is difficult to know his specific location.

In this regard, Fu Quan can only extinguish the fire of insight in his heart, he doesn't want to go to Guo's door, the last time he went to the Changshe Zhong's, he was tired enough to pull a Zhong Xuan to accompany him to "play" Yingchuan, let alone let him go to Guo's again this time? I can only wait for fate to see you again!

In the end, after sending Xi Zhicai home, Fu Quan took people out of the city and left, and Xi Zhicai made an appointment two days later, after he settled down at home, he waited for him to go to the military camp outside the city to meet with the Han army of Fuquan's department, and together went to Runan and Chen Guo to meet the Han army of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun.

Back home, Xi Zhicai explained the situation to his wife in detail, although his wife had noticed something from her husband's abnormality in the past two days, she still didn't expect Xi Zhicai to take refuge in Fuquan.

However, the so-called husband sang with the wife, the wife did not dissuade her, after holding the gold cake brought by Xi Zhicai, after thanking Fuquan for her kindness, she bought a few new clothes for Xi Zhicai, bought wine and food, made a few delicious dishes, and saw off her husband.

Two days later, Xi Zhicai changed his previous laziness and got up early, and after saying goodbye to his wife, Xi Zhicai deeply instructed: "I am favored by Fu Pingkou, and I can't leave it." My wife can live here in peace, and when I succeed with Pingkou, I will be a marquis and pay homage to the prime minister, so that you will be rich and prosperous all your life. ”

After that, Xi Zhicai picked up the bag and package that had been prepared for him in his wife's hand and walked towards the Han army camp outside Yangzhai County.